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We have proper beer in the UK :)

It depends. Look at DongleGate...

Couple of things I've seen recently: * I know a person still running their entire businesses off an old HP-41 series calculator and an accounting book. * A company I worked for in …

Visual Basic is derived from the same roots. I think the use is acceptable. For reference, I started on PDS (QBASIC 7) and used VB for DOS for a number of years. Awesome products. …

Because that would destroy the incorrect point they are trying to promote.

Selling hardware and PCs yes. And that's only because of the insane markup on apple products. Lets throw consultancy, ISVs and software sales on those figures and watch the mac whi…

Med Express is being an asshat. The buyer is being an asshat too. Med Express have a supposed reputation to defend which they have obviously really shown here i.e. sue anyone who s…

That wears off pretty quickly. After about 30 mins in the air, to quote Frankie Boyle, you are just in a tin can full of other people's farts. I hate flying. It was once exciting b…

Err no. PCI DSS is basically farts in the wind. Its beyond useless and the testing agencies are all snake oil salesmen.

That's totally shit. Its also why we invoice and take wire payments rather than storing CC details. There's just so much to go wrong. Also PKI is shit for this sort of thing. As de…

Spot on. This is why I'm still a fan of the old directory style systems like dmoz.

You have obviously never used Lotus Notes in the early '00s then! Same grade turd, just with a bigger price tag and more consultants than you can shake a shitty stick at. Nostalgia…

Agreed. The number of things Ghostery blocks seems inversely proportional to the utility value of the site!

Regarding 1 (pair programming), I find that we work well with all our own personalities but not other people's :)

What buttons? (adblock)

Serial killer? :)

Well your database is a black box technically speaking. It's very hard to scale it horizontally and it is very expensive to scale it vertically as time goes on. Logic suggests that…

Agreed. We've got them on Windows too - .msi files :) The main advantage of standalone packages is I can choose whatever version of package XYZ I want and push it out rather than b…

That's fine but for some of us, connectivity is not ubiquitous and it isn't necessarily legal to ship our code or data somewhere else unknown on the Internet...

Citation from me - stuff that hasn't worked properly for me in the last 5 years: Acer Timeline 1810TZ, Acer Timeline 3810TZ, Sony Vaio VPC-J1, Lenovo ThinkPad T61, Dell Precision 3…

Ugh another thing I really don't want in the database. Seriously, stuff like this will knacker your scalability over time. I only say this because I've been there, with SQL Server'…

My point entirely :)

This. Integration is hell. This is a universal fact. I'd rather pick a tool which doesn't add integration requirements!

Perhaps my point wasn't quite described as well as it could have been. What I meant to say was: What distinguishes your product is not how it stores or presents the data but what v…

I didn't mention C :) I wouldn't drop down to C ever at application level. There is virtually no need to do this these days without introducing more risks from a security and memor…